| Summary: | Konqueror cannot open .desktop files/apps, instead asks to download or preview them | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konqueror | Reporter: | Dorin-Andrei Felea <megadorin4> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Konqueror Bugs <konqueror-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | stefano.crocco |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 25.08.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | CachyOS | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Konqueror asking what should I do with the KDevelop .desktop file | ||
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Description
Dorin-Andrei Felea
2025-08-30 14:17:26 UTC
Created attachment 184586 [details]
Konqueror asking what should I do with the KDevelop .desktop file
This is caused in part by the fact that Konqueror treats "applications:/" URLs as remote URLs and so, for security reasons, it doesn't allow to execute them. When trying to fix this, however, I noticed that, at least on my system, Dolphin too doesn't execute those files but displays them in a text editor (Kate, in my case). Could you please check whether the same happens on your system? Try launching Dolphin, then enter applications:/ in the address bar, press enter and navigate to a single application and double click it: does it launch the application or does it open the .desktop file in a text editor? Hello, When I launch .desktop files, Dolphin asks whether I want to open it in Kate/KWrite/some other text editor or if I want to launch it. Launching .desktop files from applications:/, however, do the same thing as they do on Konqueror. (In reply to Dorin-Andrei Felea from comment #3) > Hello, > > When I launch .desktop files, Dolphin asks whether I want to open it in > Kate/KWrite/some other text editor or if I want to launch it. > Launching .desktop files from applications:/, however, do the same thing as > they do on Konqueror. It seems that either this is the intended behavior (maybe for security reasons) or it's a bug which also affects Dolphin, most likely because both Dolphin and Konqueror use the same way to launch the .desktop file. I'll try asking whether this is indeed the intended behavior. This should be fixed by a change in Plasma Workspace (https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/5805) and a change in Konqueror (https://invent.kde.org/network/konqueror/-/merge_requests/442). Note that you'll have to wait for both changes to be released for the bug to be fixed. The change in Konqueror will be in version 25.12.0, to be released in December. I don't know when the changes in Plasma Workspace will be released. |